Resultados para "Dog" en Ficción contemporánea

"A Dog's Tale" is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers.

John Converse, giornalista e drammaturgo californiano, si è reinventato corrispondente estero in Vietnam per scrivere un libro sulla guerra, ma soprattutto per sfuggire al delirio paranoico e all’infelice matrimonio con Marge, bigliettaia in un cinema a luci rosse con un problema di dipendenza. Converse viene accolto da una Saigon che offre ad ogni angolo eroina e prostituzione perché, durante un conflitto sempre più difficile per le forze anticomuniste, «è naturale che la gente voglia sballarsi».

Yesterday, Sally was living in an idyllic South African farmstead with her teenage daughter, Gigi. Now Sally is dead, murdered, and Gigi is alone. But Sally lingers unseen in her daughter's shadow. When Gigi moves in with her aunt, Sally comes, too. When Gigi's cousin develops an obsession with African black magic. Now Sally must find a way to stop her daughter from making a mistake that will destroy the lives of everyone.

Eadie T. Pratt sets out on a road trip in search of a new life and ends up in the middle of somewhere she never expected. Start with one independent, urban lesbian who cashes out her life in San Francisco for a secondhand travel trailer and sets off to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in search of a new life. Add to this a broken-down '66 Mustang, a bunch of small-town Texas Baptists, a ton of fried food, and a church scandal.

Shadow Moon has been on the road a while now, but he can't walk any farther tonight, not with the rain lashing down. Gratefully he heads home with a nice English couple, who offer a box room, hot whisky and local tales. But when the man collapses en route, Shadow realises that something about this place has been left untold. Something ancient, something within the very walls of the village. Something shadowing them all.

When neighborhood dogs keep turning up dead, Peter commits himself to finding the killer. His investigation leads him nowhere - until it doesn't. It isn't long before Peter finds himself on the ultimate quest for truth.

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